Caranx's ThailandGrow

So my travel got extended almost a week, first got stuck 2 days longer than planned up in the Mountains, then when I started to make my way back cross Laos down to Thailand I got food poisoned and got stuck some more days on the toilet lol.

Was expecting the worse when arriving back home because nobody could give them a watering and food the last week.

It sure was a ugly sight but not as bad as I expected.

Some of the plants was wilting very badly and dropped alot of leaves. Also found some week old peppers that was dark and shrink led that I picked off.

Worst affected was the prik ke nu, Jay's red ghost scorpion and the noname Indian chili however the noname Indian chili have already came back to life 4 hours after getting water, hope the Jay's ghost will do the same until tomorrow. Prik ke nu have all dried up leafs, but I scratched two stems and they are still green and moist inside. So maybe a cutback and it will grow back in a few months.

The bigger chinense wasnt wilting at all but had some clhorotic leafs and top growth was pretty wrinkled. Not sure if it's because nutes finished, or salt
build up from the coco not getting new water. And if the unusual wrinkled leafs is a pH issue or pest. The coco was still moist about 8cm down from the surface.

The jalapeno's and piri piri's did drop a few leafs and had some wrinkled ugly looking new peppers that i removed however they were alot of new peppers that looked to be doing fine.

The prik che fah didn't seem affected at all and peppers is double size now.

Surprisingly the plants that did the best was my seedlings in cups and the seedlings i potted up before leaving. Insane that the seedlings and clones in cups of coco survived that good, the coco looked to have been bonedry for a good while. Alot of leafs dropped and yellowing on one of the repotted ones but the rest seem to have no damage at all, and they are no longer seedlings because some of them trippled in size and are ready to become real plants!

Will take more pics of all plants tomorrow, so tired after this trip!


Edit; Noticed that some pics uploaded sideways, sorry about that and I'm to exhausted to fix it now lol. Will upload better ones tomorrow when they recovered!


The prik ke nu with dried out leafs

The Jay's ghost and noname indian

I never ever, ever, ever ever travel here without cipro and immodium.  I can't imagine the horror of being on some long haul bus and having that hit me lol!
Good to see plants are doing well despite it all!  
 
Here in BKK if the bugs don't get you the cats will and we have a major cat infestation that has befouled almost every inch of soil I have.  In pots, in planters, and the small garden we have all all filled with cat poo.  The smell is horrid and bad for humans since it has Toxoplasma gondii parasites.    We clean it up and they keep coming back.    
Did you have to do a visa run to Lao?

Today's update!

The wilted plants recovered, the Jay's did have some top growth that didn't so I topped those stems.

Also cut back the prik ke nu, hopefully it will come back to life but if not I atleast have a clone of it.

Also all plants i took a closer look too had what appears to be whiteflies or something similar. I guess another pestspecie to cross of the list in my short growing career..

Sprayed non fruiting plants with cypermethrin and the rest with neem.
Gonna continue that regularly for a few week and if the neem won't work I'll pick the peppers and spray with chemicals instead.






The tops that were still wilted and cut off on the ghost



The damaged top growth on the chinense, if anybody ever something please let me know what was the cause



The superdurable seedlings and clone


The wild brazil and Angelo clone that got grew alot while i was away



Piri piri


Some paprika


Some of the new jalapeños that grew while i was away

Plants look like they have recovered nicely from the wilting.
And pods!
 
Good luck getting a handle on the bugs.